About the Carlos O. Miller Lecture

The Miller lectures honor Emeritus Professor Carlos Miller, a member of our faculty for 50 years, who has a longstanding interest in the mechanisms of plant growth and development.

In 1999, Carlos established the Carlos O. Miller Chair of Plant Growth and Development to help strengthen IU's efforts to build a group with research emphasis on the biochemistry of plant growth and development. Miller feels the field will assume an increasing importance in agriculture as the world population rises.

Mark Estelle currently holds the Miller Chair of Plant Developmental Biology. According to Estelle, his lab is working to "identify the proteins that interact directly with auxin and that function in early auxin signaling. In addition, our previous work has provided the reagents (new mutants) that allow us to examine the role of auxin in diverse aspects of plant growth and development.”

Estelle established the lecture series in 2004 to honor Carlos Miller and his contributions to the Department of Biology and scientific community. "Carlos is an inspiration to faculty, students, and postdocs," remarked Estelle.

Past Lectures

March 6, 2008
Joseph Kieber, Ph.D., Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cytokinin signaling: From autoclaved DNA to a
two-component response pathway.

April 19, 2007
Steve A. Kay, Ph.D., Previously Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, Professor of Cell Biology, and Director of the Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases The Scripps Research Institute. Currently Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California-San Diego. Systems approaches to understanding circadian clocks.

April 10, 2006
Enrico Coen, Ph.D., Project Leader for the Cell & Development Biology Department for the John Innes Centre. Evolutionary wormholes: the developmental genetics of diversity.

April 7, 2005
Joanne Chory, Ph.D., HHMI Investigator, Professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego. Molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone signaling in plants.

April 15, 2004
Dr. Detlef Weigel, director of the Department of Molecular Biology at Max Planck Institute for Development, Germany. Plant Development: Insights from Microarrays and MicroRNAs.

Contact Us

If you have questions about the upcoming lecture, please contact

Mark Estelle, Professor
(812) 856-1216

Kathy Wyss, Development Officer
(812) 855-6195